Catalogue of the Valuable Private Librry and Autograph Collectdion.
Boston: C. F. Libbie & Co., May 10 and 11, 1905. Item #826 8vo. 240 x 155 mm., [9 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches]. 123 pp. Original printed wrappers; some soiling and discoloration of the wrappers, spine a bit chipped, yet sound. This copy with a presentation bookplate inside the back wrapper pasted-in by the New England Historic Genealogical Society citing the catalogue as a gift from Libbie & Co.; with numerous ownership stamps in blind of the NEHGS. With a printed ‘Notice’ about the rules of the sale and an envelope for bids. Fine collection of first editions 1,320 lots of American authors including presentation copies of Emerson, Holmes, Parsons, Leland, and 249 lots of autograph letters, manuscripts and ephemera by notable English and American authors, including Dickens, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Whitman. Wiliam Rouseville Alger (1822-1905) was a was a Unitarian minister and author whose writings were important to the development of comparative religious studies. His major works included The Poetry of the East (1856) and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1860). He published numerous works on Christianity and living a life of fellowship and compassion toward all mankind. George McKay, American Auction Catalogues, 5945. Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography, I p. 49. Allibone’s A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, I p. 52.
Price: $75.00